Apple Asks Judge to Make Samsung Pay an Additional $16 Million in Legal Fees

Apple won big recently in its long running patent trial against Samsung, but now there's some concern that it's rubbing salt into the wounds. On top of the $930 million that Samsung is already expected to pay Apple, MacRumors reports that Apple is also asking the judge to stipulate that the Korean tech manufacturer must pay $16 million to partially pay for Apple's legal fees.

Mind you, that's not all of the money Apple will pay its lawyers. Far from it. Apple currently owes the firm of Morrison & Foerster $60 million, and Apple claims that even this figure just includes "timekeepers who billed more than $100,000 for work on Apple's claims against Samsung." Apple's request of $16 million merely amounts to around one-third of the total cost.

There's a reason for this. In the words of the statement, through such measures "Apple ensures that it is not recovering fees for its unsuccessful claims concerning the unregistered combination iPhone trade dress or for tablet design." Apple is clearly miffed, though, as can particularly be seen in the lawyers' claims that "Samsung deliberately copied every aspect of Apple's revolutionary iPhone product."

Still, all this seems like but a drop in the bucket compared to the more than $100 million that Apple is thought to have dumped into its legal counsel for just the first stage of its case against HTC.